What to our wondering ears should appear, but a 40-track Jonas Kaufmann Christmas album?
Elsa Dreisig, Jonas Kaufmann, and Malin Byström lead recent album releases.
Verdi’s Stiffelio goes Amish in Vienna, featuring a stellar Luciano Ganci in the title role.
Dull conducting makes Der Freischütz miss its mark at Carnegie Hall.
Ahead of his first season as the Music & Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, how much longer can — and should — Gustavo Dudamel stay quiet about the situation in his native Venezuela?
The recent highly hyped studio recording of Puccini’s Turandot left me greatly disappointed.
Ponchielli goes east with mixed results in I Lituani.
Looking back, this Stiffelio in Piacenza is the one I cherish the most.
Matthew Polenzani charms the pants off of Philadelphia.
Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci at Lyric Opera of Chicago are hysterical in all the wrong ways.
Jonas Kaufmann has a new lieder album called Doppelgänger, but the contents of the album vary depending on how you purchase it.
For our first review in a new series, we turn to the new recording of Dido and Aeneas featuring Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres and Maxim Emelyanychev leading Il Pomo d’Oro.
In Lohengrin, populism comes to an apocalyptic end on the Bavarian stage
Contrasting approaches to Regie duke it out in Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci and Rusalka in Munich
This week, Chris’s Cache features five singers in Orchesterlieder by Richard Strauss
Don Carlos returns to the Opéra National de Paris and it’s an unusually happy occasion
Ahead of his only New York appearances this season later this month, parterre box looks forward to the return of estimable baritone Amartuvshin Enkhbat by sharing a clip featuring starry company.
Fidelio, which opened last week at the Metropolitan Opera, will always be relevant, I fear.
In 2011, Sondra Radvanovsky‘s Tosca proved promising; fourteen years later, it was absolutely magnificent, a completely satisfying musical and dramatic embodiment of a challenging role by an artist at the peak of her powers.
If song recitals by opera stars Piotr Beczala and Asmik Grigorian sometimes came up short, Semyon Bychkov’s powerful rendition of the Glagolitic Mass instantly became one of the year’s highlights.
Patrick Mack reviews yet another Puccini album from Jonas Kaufmann
Happy was I to attend the Celebrity Opera Series presentation Saturday night at BroadStage, mere blocks from my humble abode in Santa Monica as Anglela Gheorghiu was making an eagerly awaited return for the first time since her debut here in 2013.
Patrick Mack on the iconic Ethan Mordden‘s career and his first book on opera in 30 years – and it appears that time has mostly stopped in the Mordden manse.
Following Gundula Janowitz and Janet Baker, Chris’s Cache sends birthday greetings to another favorite diva—Karita Matilla—with a quartet of broadcasts.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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